Injury "Sweeps" Ellen Off Her Feet and On to Back

In what I can only imagine is some dangerous, misguided attempt to compete with the Rosie Quits/Hasselbeck Baby headline-making going on over at The View, fellow talker host Ellen DeGeneres injured her back  badly, it would seem  over the weekend, and as a result will conduct her Q&As this week lying down in a hospital bed posited center stage on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, TMZ.com reports. Among the guests being chatted up by the lying-down Ellen are Ryan Seacrest (on Tuesday) and Lindsay Lohan (on Wednesday). Ellen is expected to disclose on air exactly how this unfortunate, unfortunate sweeps twist came to be.

Matt Mitovich

April 30, 2007 at 5:14 p.m. PT

In what I can only imagine is some dangerous, misguided attempt to compete with the Rosie Quits/Hasselbeck Baby headline-making going on over at The View, fellow talker host Ellen DeGeneres injured her back - badly, it would seem - over the weekend, and as a result will conduct her Q&As this week lying down in a hospital bed posited center stage on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, TMZ.com reports.

Among the guests being chatted up by the lying-down Ellen are Ryan Seacrest (on Tuesday) and Lindsay Lohan (on Wednesday). Ellen is expected to disclose on air exactly how this unfortunate, unfortunate sweeps twist came to be.